>When one talks about deflation and inflation, 99% of the time they refer to the "price" of a currency, and the effects you discuss above of these two phenomena on a society occur when money changes its value.
That's not really the case. Most people understand inflation to be as it is defined: an increase in the general price level of goods and services. Now, higher prices might mean your money buys less, but OP is right in considering that inflation/deflation are functions of the price of GOODS AND SERVICES, not of money. Money has a price, sure, but only relative to holders of one currency looking to buy another.^1 It's also helpful to think of the amount of one good or service that money can buy as sort of a "price" of money relative to another, but that's purchasing power parity^2 and it's also a function of cross-currency trading. Very little of that has to do with inflation. Maybe interest rates, but not inflation.
What OP is really interested in is Moore's Law, the phenomenon by which greater efficiency in computing and power distribution makes electronics cheaper to build.